Should State Champions have to move up one division the following season?

This is one rule that I would like to see put into place.

Since the enrollment cutoff numbers are so arbitrary, if you are able to win in a division, I feel the next year you should have to move up to the next highest division (with the exception of DI obviously).

Sorry, but dumbest thing I've heard in a long time.
First, does absolutely nothing to Div I.
Second, a decent but average football program has the class of a lifetime and wins a state title. They lose 18 starters but are forced into a larger division the next year because of what LAST YEAR'S team did. What?

Sorry, but dumbest thing I've heard in a long time.
First, does absolutely nothing to Div I.
Second, a decent but average football program has the class of a lifetime and wins a state title. They lose 18 starters but are forced into a larger division the next year because of what LAST YEAR'S team did. What?

In most sports, we have three divisions:

DI: D1/2 football divisions
DII: D3/4/5 ""
DIII: D6/7 ""

The schools on the bottom end of the enrollment are still competing in those divisions every year in every other sport. The biggest difference is that only 3 schools can call themselves state champs. For whatever reason, we've made football much easier to win a championship than any other sport in Ohio. Basically, a competitive balance before there was a competitive balance proposal.

Once a school is able to win a championship in a lower division, I would like to move them up. Does it really matter if they are losing 18 starters? Not really, there are plenty of schools that are only marginally larger than them that have had to compete at a higher level for years. If you win, you get moved up so you don't benefit from these artificial enrollment cutoffs that provide competitive balance.

Should State Champions have to move up one division the following season?

This is one rule that I would like to see put into place.

Since the enrollment cutoff numbers are so arbitrary, if you are able to win in a division, I feel the next year you should have to move up to the next highest division (with the exception of DI obviously).

Thoughts?

1 to 2 successful years wouldn't suggest a trend therefore moving up or down a division isn't warranted in my opinion; however, if that trend improves to 3 wins / or losses within a 5 year period I think I would recommend movement.

A single year is too small of a sampling to say they need to move up. Of course, if you did this, OHSAA would need to move schools down too since, outside of D1, they try to keep the divisions equal in size.

But lets say it is forced and not optional like you suggested. What if the school wins next year in a higher division? Do we keep moving them up?

Obviously thinking about the MAC here as they have proven they could probably win in any of the three lower divisions.

I believe that it should be the choice of the school if they want to move up or not. High school teams can be completely different from one year to another. Unless the OHSAA makes it more rewarding for each higher division then I do not see the reasoning to why a team would do it.

I think that school that does not make the playoffs should drop down a division; while this will eventually make D7 about 600 schools, those schools by definition are losers and at least they will be competing against other losers for a playoff spot. Win a playoff game and you get bumped up a division

Should State Champions have to move up one division the following season?

This is one rule that I would like to see put into place.

Since the enrollment cutoff numbers are so arbitrary, if you are able to win in a division, I feel the next year you should have to move up to the next highest division (with the exception of DI obviously).

Catholic schools, who win a majority of title, would have no problem moving up. Hartley could play any division. DeSales could play any division. Newark Catholic could play a lot bigger schools.movimg them up just takes away from a public school in the higher division to have to play a catholic school. IT would put Fesales and Hartley in the same division in Sao,e cases. If they are in the same division let it be by enrollment.

Should State Champions have to move up one division the following season?

This is one rule that I would like to see put into place.

Since the enrollment cutoff numbers are so arbitrary, if you are able to win in a division, I feel the next year you should have to move up to the next highest division (with the exception of DI obviously).

Catholic schools, who win a majority of title, would have no problem moving up. Hartley could play any division. DeSales could play any division. Newark Catholic could play a lot bigger schools.movimg them up just takes away from a public school in the higher division to have to play a catholic school. IT would put Fesales and Hartley in the same division in Sao,e cases. If they are in the same division let it be by enrollment.

Except for the two seasons they dropped down to D5 and couldnt get passed some small podunk cow town........

Catholic schools, who win a majority of title, would have no problem moving up. Hartley could play any division. DeSales could play any division. Newark Catholic could play a lot bigger schools.movimg them up just takes away from a public school in the higher division to have to play a catholic school. IT would put Fesales and Hartley in the same division in Sao,e cases. If they are in the same division let it be by enrollment.

should state champions have to move up one division the following season?

This is one rule that i would like to see put into place.

Since the enrollment cutoff numbers are so arbitrary, if you are able to win in a division, i feel the next year you should have to move up to the next highest division (with the exception of di obviously).

Catholic schools, who win a majority of title, would have no problem moving up. Hartley could play any division. DeSales could play any division. Newark Catholic could play a lot bigger schools.movimg them up just takes away from a public school in the higher division to have to play a catholic school. IT would put Fesales and Hartley in the same division in Sao,e cases. If they are in the same division let it be by enrollment.